Arm into the bottling bucket

[SwampassJ]

No way in hell am I the only one.

To make a long story short. I put the spigot on upside down and without thinking about using an extra length of hose to connect to my filler I decided to pour a **** load of rubbing alcohol onto my arm, scrub it and then pour some more and dunk my arm into the bucket to straighten the spigot.

 

[BendBrewer]

Your spigot doesn't rotate?

I had to do it when mine was leaking once. But I just stuck my arm in my sani bucket.

Not much left to eat at that point anyway. You would be surprised how many breweries don't even sanitize their bottles before filling them.

 

[bovineblitz]

I did that once, I stuck my arm in a cider, all I did was rinse my arm first. Came out delicious.

 

[jds]

You're not the only one, except that for me, it was the hop filter on the BK that clogged, necessitating a dunk into the wort.

The beer turned out delicious.

BTW, like the Wayne avatar. Dude's a genius.

 

[CrustyBrau]

This thread makes me cringe

 

[Johnny_Crunch]

It would be the arm hair I would be most concerned with............

 

[SatelliteGuy]

Would this work, in a similar situation? Take a garbage bag big enough to come to your armpit, stick your arm in it, spritz it with sanitizer (I'm thinking StarSan), and reach in?

 

[jds]

I just scrubbed my arm well, then hit it with a big dose of sanitizer, waited, repeated, and reached in. Of course, I pitched dry yeast shortly thereafter, and had no signs of any problems.

Remember, man was brewing beer before the invention of stainless steel, hydrometers, thermometers, microbiology, and no-rinse sanitizers. While striving for the cleanest possible methods is certainly best practice for the homebrewer, I decided that reaching in to dislodge the gunk clogging my dip tube was going to be less of a problem than siphoning with sketchy tubing.

I've since replaced all my "sketchy" vinyl tubing with silicone that can be sanitized by dunking it in the boil, and added a biermuncher-style hop bag to my brew kettle to keep the outflow clear.

 

[tmurph6]

I always tend to spit into my bottling bucket for some reason. Suck the siphon tube, get a little trub in my mouth, natural reaction is to spit it out. Never had an issue with it. I feel like the alcohol kills it at that point!

 

[NWMOBrewer]

I almost had to tighten my spigot, but what i did was let it leak a little, sanatize my other bucket with the beer in my bottling bucket, and swich the beer back over. Tightened it, and put the beer back in bottling bucket (after sanatization) and let it sit a few more days. i am dreading killing a batch when I do that.

 

[TANSTAAFB]

First time I used my home made stir plate I forgot to extract the stir bar and pitched it into my wort with the yeast. I scrubbed the piss outta my arm, sanitized w/ StarSan, and went arm fishing...The beer is one of my best ever!!!

 

[2wide]

I dropped something into the fermenter just after pitching on my first or second brew. I panicked, sprayed my arm down with StarSan, and went fishing. Some reading convinced me the brew wasn't going to be worth saving, so I poured most of it. I found a couple of stray bottles about 6 months afterword and--you know the ending--they tasted fine.

Wouldn't recommend it, though.

 

[KRYLOK]

yep me too but i went fishing for the rubber o-ring.

 

[teachtim]

I'll second the rubber o-ring on the fermenter. Turned out fine.

 

[dvdanny]

I slipped once and my unsanitized arm went into chilled wort. Beer turned out fine. Although it kind of made a mess. Glad I was wearing short sleeves that day.

 

[HexKrak]

I've had to put my hand in for one reason or another. I always scrub then a quick soak in sani solution (star san or iodophor, whichever I'm using that day) before I handle anything going near the beer/wort post boil.